From 74c50b4bae225b8e5aff9a1ceca256ba46c665c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:59:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] qlge: bugfix: Pad outbound frames smaller than 60 bytes.
With some asic configurations xmit of frames smaller than 60 bytes may
fail.
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
index ce826da6f165..189584684aae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
@@ -2057,6 +2057,9 @@ static int qlge_send(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
tx_ring = &qdev->tx_ring[tx_ring_idx];
+ if (skb_padto(skb, ETH_ZLEN))
+ return NETDEV_TX_OK;
+
if (unlikely(atomic_read(&tx_ring->tx_count) < 2)) {
QPRINTK(qdev, TX_QUEUED, INFO,
"%s: shutting down tx queue %d du to lack of resources.\n",
--
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